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  • Escobar: Thinking Beyond Planet-Lockdown

    ZeroHedge - May 1st 2020 12:20am EDT

    Escobar: Thinking Beyond Planet-Lockdown Authored by Pepe Escobar via The Asia Times, Between the unaccountability of elites and total fragmentation of civil society, Covid-19 as a circuit breaker is showing how the king – systemic design – is naked.  We are being sucked into a danse macabre of multiple complex systems “colliding into one another,” producing all […]

  • CDC Extends Social Distancing Guidelines To Apply To Pets

    ZeroHedge - May 1st 2020 12:00am EDT

    CDC Extends Social Distancing Guidelines To Apply To Pets Now that the first domesticated dog has tested positive for for the novel coronavirus, joining at least one tiger at the Bronx Zoo, it’s probably worth noting that the CDC earlier this month extended America’s social distancing guidelines to include pets. To be clear: there’s no […]

  • How Fanatics Hack Our Minds (And Why We Let Them)

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 11:40pm EDT

    How Fanatics Hack Our Minds (And Why We Let Them) Authored by Barry Brownstein via The American Institute for Economic Research, In his 1841 book Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Charles MacKay wrote, “During seasons of great pestilence men have often believed the prophecies of crazed fanatics, that the end of the world […]

  • China Refuses WHO Request To Take Part In Coronavirus Origin Probe

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 11:34pm EDT

    China Refuses WHO Request To Take Part In Coronavirus Origin Probe At a time when President Trump has officially accused the Wuhan Institute Of Virology of being the cause for the worst pandemic in modern history (as we did first all the way back in January), claiming he has seen evidence that the lab is […]

  • Time For A Gap Year: Harvard Tells Students Prepare For Likelihood Of Online Only Fall Courses

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 11:20pm EDT

    Time For A Gap Year: Harvard Tells Students Prepare For Likelihood Of Online Only Fall Courses In what could be a precedent-setting move by arguably the world’s most prestigious academic institution, Harvard University announced Monday that the extreme uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus pandemic and accompanying economic shutdowns means the school is mulling the possibility of going […]

  • America The Victim: Are Enemies Lining Up For Revenge In The Wake Of COVID-19?

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 11:00pm EDT

    America The Victim: Are Enemies Lining Up For Revenge In The Wake Of COVID-19? Authored by Philip Giraldi via The Strategic Culture Foundation, When in trouble politically, governments have traditionally conjured up a foreign enemy to explain why things are going wrong. Whatever one chooses to believe about the coronavirus, the fact is that it […]

  • Yuan Crashes After Trump Weighs Blocking Retirement Fund Access To Chinese Stocks As War Of Words Escalates

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 10:52pm EDT

    Yuan Crashes After Trump Weighs Blocking Retirement Fund Access To Chinese Stocks As War Of Words Escalates Having tumbled yesterday on the first set of headlines reporting on the Trump administration’s plans to seek ‘COVID reparations’ and accusations of Chinese ‘meddling’ in the US election (not in favor of Trump), the Chinese yuan legged dramatically […]

  • Restaurant Recovery Begins As Money Spent On Dining Posts First Increase In Weeks

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 10:40pm EDT

    Restaurant Recovery Begins As Money Spent On Dining Posts First Increase In Weeks Today’s -4.8% GDP print was dire, but it would have been even worse had it not been for a spike in discretionary spending as Americans found themselves under house arrest for the second half of March. Given the importance of consumer spending […]

  • Deutsche Bank Capitulates: Starts Charging Negative Rate On All New Deposit Accounts Over €100,000

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 10:20pm EDT

    Deutsche Bank Capitulates: Starts Charging Negative Rate On All New Deposit Accounts Over €100,000 It has been a long time coming and it’s finally here. When the ECB first unleashed negative rates across Europe in 2014, banks were loathe to match the central bank’s deposit rates for their clients to those charged by the ECB […]

  • LatAm Bailout Veteran Says Emerging Market Crisis Is The “Worst He’s Ever Seen”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 10:00pm EDT

    LatAm Bailout Veteran Says Emerging Market Crisis Is The “Worst He’s Ever Seen” With the Nasdaq set to erase all of its 2020 losses after strong earnings from the tech giants, and stocks generally surging on the assumption that, as UBS put it, “lockdowns are lifted by the end of June and do not need […]

  • Silver Hasn’t Been This Cheap In 5,000 Years Of Human History

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 9:40pm EDT

    Silver Hasn’t Been This Cheap In 5,000 Years Of Human History Authored by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com, More than 4,000 years ago, the city of Kanesh was quickly becoming an important commercial trading hub within the ancient Assyrian Empire. Kanesh was located in the dead center of modern day Turkey, so it was perfectly situated […]

  • Pompeo Demands Countries Block Airspace To Iran’s ‘Terrorist Airline’ After Venezuela Deliveries

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 9:20pm EDT

    Pompeo Demands Countries Block Airspace To Iran’s ‘Terrorist Airline’ After Venezuela Deliveries The US is going on the offensive once again against Venezuela, this time attempting to break up growing Iranian cooperation and assistance to Caracas. The two so-called ‘rogue states’ recently targeted for US-imposed regime change are helping each other fight coronavirus as well as Washington-led […]

  • McDonalds Starts To Ration Meat Amid Supply Chain “Concerns”

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 9:08pm EDT

    McDonalds Starts To Ration Meat Amid Supply Chain “Concerns” Just days after the CEO of Tyson Foods warned that the “food supply chain is breaking”, the disruptions due to the coronavirus are starting to surface not only in households and grocery stores, but also across corporate America, and even McDonald’s has now said it is […]

  • April Will Be The Worst Month On Record For Auto Sales

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 8:40pm EDT

    April Will Be The Worst Month On Record For Auto Sales In a world breaking economic records left and right, we can add one more: April is set to be the worst month ever for auto sales. According to the car shopping experts at Edmunds, April will be a record down month for the auto […]

  • Berman: Game Over For Oil… The Economy Is Next

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 8:20pm EDT

    Berman: Game Over For Oil… The Economy Is Next Authored by Art Berman, It’s game-over for most of the U.S. oil industry. Prices have collapsed and storage is nearly full. The only option for many producers is to shut in their wells. That means no income. Most have considerable debt so bankruptcy is next. Peggy […]

  • Brazil’s Neighbors Close Borders As Latin America’s Biggest COVID-19 “Hot Spot” Reopens

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 8:00pm EDT

    Brazil’s Neighbors Close Borders As Latin America’s Biggest COVID-19 “Hot Spot” Reopens Brazil hasn’t even confirmed 100k cases of COVID-19. Yet, government officials across South American fear the largest country on the Continent, which shares a land border with every country in South American except 2 (Ecuador and Chile), has already become one of the […]

  • The Unseen Costs Of Government-Forced Lockdowns

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 7:40pm EDT

    The Unseen Costs Of Government-Forced Lockdowns Authored by Elizabeth Wilson via The Mises Institute, [Author’s note: This is my modified version of Frédéric Bastiat’s great work “That Which is Seen, and that Which is Not Seen,” as applied to the current COVID-19 panic and the resulting 2020 Great Lockdown.] “In the department of economy, an act, a habit, […]

  • $6.66 Trillion

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 7:30pm EDT

    $6.66 Trillion Well at least our satanic overlords have a sense of humor. According to the latest Fed balance sheet, as of April 29, the Fed’s balance sheet increased by 82.8 billion dollars over the past week, rising to a record  6,655,929,000,000 which, of course rounds up to $6.66 trillion (also, who can possibly forget […]

  • In “Decision He’ll Come To Regret,” Judge Allows Warrantless Aerial Surveillance Of Baltimore

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 7:20pm EDT

    In “Decision He’ll Come To Regret,” Judge Allows Warrantless Aerial Surveillance Of Baltimore For many years we’ve been documenting the developments surrounding spy planes over the skies of the Baltimore metro area, monitoring residents as the region has become the testing ground for the surveillance state.  In early April, under cover of the coronavirus pandemic, Baltimore City’s […]

  • The Elephant In The Room Keeping Businesses From Reopening

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 7:00pm EDT

    The Elephant In The Room Keeping Businesses From Reopening Authored by Rachel Alexander via Stream.org, Yes, COVID-19 kills people. But so does a collapsed economy. Finally, states are beginning to let more businesses open. But there’s a problem. A big one, that could keep crucial businesses closed. Georgia allowed some businesses to open on Friday. […]

  • Daily Briefing – April 30, 2020

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 6:44pm EDT

    Daily Briefing – April 30, 2020   Real Vision’s Managing Editor Ed Harrison sits down with Roger Hirst to discuss what’s going on in markets today. Harrison and Hirst touch on the economic numbers coming out of the U.S. and Europe, the possibility of China exporting deflation, and how the market will move forward in […]

  • Las Vegas Transforms Casino Into Food Bank As Working Poor Line Up For Miles 

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 6:40pm EDT

    Las Vegas Transforms Casino Into Food Bank As Working Poor Line Up For Miles  In a post-corona world, Americans returned to some casinos along the Las Vegas Strip, but as we explain in this piece, they are not gambling. A new, shocking reality has unfolded in a world of social distancing, stay-at-home public health orders, […]

  • ‘A’ Did Not Cause ‘B’

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 6:20pm EDT

    ‘A’ Did Not Cause ‘B’ Authored by Michael Maharrey via SchiffGold.com, A = coronavirus. B = economic meltdown. A caused B. That’s the mainstream narrative when it comes to the economic pain we’re feeling right now. But in reality, A did not cause B. B was in the works long before A came along. Of […]

  • Pelosi Demands $1 Trillion In Pandemic Relief For States And Local Governments

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 6:00pm EDT

    Pelosi Demands $1 Trillion In Pandemic Relief For States And Local Governments Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) announced on Thursday that Democrats are trying to negotiate for nearly $1 trillion for states and local governments in the next installment of the taxpayer funded coronavirus relief package – which will be the single largest request by Democrats […]

  • Smith: The Crisis Won’t Stop Until The Globalists Are Removed From Power

    ZeroHedge - Apr 30th 2020 5:40pm EDT

    Smith: The Crisis Won’t Stop Until The Globalists Are Removed From Power Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com, In the first week of February I published an article titled ‘The Lies We Are Being Told About The Coronavirus’. I focused primarily on the disinformation coming out of China, and for those with short memories there was […]